CW Potter - Journal of Applied Microbiology, 2001 - ddata.over-blog.com From the history of in¯uenza epidemics and pandemics, which can be traced back with some
accuracy for the past three hundred years, and with less certainty before this time, it is apparent
that outbreaks occur somewhere in the world in most years. Annual epidemics are due to ... Cited by 126 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 10 versions
- ►annals.org JG Bartlett - Annals of internal medicine, 2006 - Am Coll Physicians Avian influenza, or influenza A (H5N1), has 3 of the 4 properties necessary to cause a serious
pandemic: It can infect people, nearly all people are immunologically naive, and it is highly
lethal. The Achilles heel of the virus is the lack of sustained human–human transmission. ... Cited by 43 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►birdfluexposed.com [PDF] JS Nguyen-Van-Tam, AW Hampson - Vaccine, 2003 - Elsevier It is impossible to predict when the next pandemic of influenza will occur; however, it is almost
35 years since the last pandemic, and the longest inter-pandemic interval recorded with certainty
is 39 years. The next pandemic virus is likely to emerge in southeast Asia, as have two of ... Cited by 36 - Related articles - All 6 versions
- ►nursingworld.org KM Gebbie, KA Qureshi - OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues …, 2006 - members.medscape.com Nurses have been a part of emergency responses as long as nurses have existed. Although
the nurses who have responded to emergencies over the years may have been something other
than the fully educated, licensed, certified, professional nurses as we know them today, ... Cited by 5 - Related articles - All 12 versions
B Herman, RJ Rosychuk, T Bailey, R Lake, O … - Emerging infectious …, 2007 - cdc.gov Scientists believe we may be on the verge of the next great pandemic. Health Canada predicts
that 4.5–10.6 million Canadians will become clinically ill and 11,000–58,000 will die in such
an event (1). The current strain of influenza A (H5N1), which has been circulating in ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - Cached - BL Direct - All 8 versions
J Scanlon, T McMahon, C van … - Journal of Contingencies …, 2007 - interscience.wiley.com At first glance, there appear to be significant differences between mass death from disasters
and catastrophes and mass death from pandemics. In a disaster or catastrophe the major problem
is identifying the dead and, sometimes, determining cause of death. This can be very ... Cited by 2 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
M Keil - CLINICAL TEACHER, 2007 - interscience.wiley.com It is also possible that your web browser is not configured or not able to display style sheets.
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RA Hobday, JW Cason - American Journal of Public Health, 2009 - Am Public Health Assoc The H1N1 "Spanish flu" outbreak of 1918–1919 was the most devastating pandemic on
record, killing between 50 million and 100 million people. Should the next influenza pandemic
prove equally virulent, there could be more than 300 million deaths globally. The ... Cited by 2 - Related articles - All 3 versions
- ►critcaremed.com S Forgie, TJ Marrie - Seminars in Respiratory & Critical Care …, 2009 - thieme-connect.com Atypical pneumonia was first described in 1938, and over time, Mycoplasma, Legionella, and
Chlamydophila were the agents commonly linked with community-associated atypical
pneumonia. However, as technology has improved, so has our understanding of this ... Cited by 2 - Related articles - All 3 versions
DB White, DC Angus - JAMA, 2009 - Am Med Assoc Domínguez-Cherit and colleagues 1 conducted an observational study of 58 patients admitted
to 6 ICUs in Mexico City with H1N1-related disease during the initial outbreak in spring
2009. Kumar and colleagues 2 conducted a similar study of 168 critically ill patients in 38 ... Cited by 2 - Related articles - All 3 versions
